Jack E. Davis
Jack E. Davis | |
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Davis at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes | |
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Historian |
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Pulitzer Prize for History |
Jack Emerson Davis is an author and professor of history in Florida. He teaches environmental history and sustainability studies at the University of Florida.[1] In 2002-2003, he taught on a Fulbright award at the University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan.
Davis received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea. [2] He also wrote An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century, a dual biography of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the Florida Everglades; and Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez since 1930. With Raymond Arsenault, he edited Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida, a collection of essays on the history of the human relationship with Florida nature.
His other works include The Wide Brim: Early Poems and Ponderings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas (Florida History and Culture)April 15, 2002; Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-Century Florida March 3, 2003, edited by Kari Frederickson and Davis; and The Civil Rights Movement Oct 19, 2000.
Davis earned a BA (1985) and MA (1989) from the University of South Florida, and a Ph.D. in 1994 from Brandeis University. Before joining the University of Florida faculty, he taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he was director of environmental studies.[1] He also taught at Eckerd College.
Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez Since 1930 won the Charles S. Sydnor Prize for the best book in southern history published in 2001.[1] An Everglades Providence (2009), received the Florida Book Award gold medal in the nonfiction category.[3] In addition to winning a Pulitzer Prize, The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea was awarded the 2017 Kirkus Prize in nonfiction and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The book covers the history of Gulf of Mexico from geological formation to the present (2016).
Works
- The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea. W W Norton & Co Inc 2018. ISBN 9781631494024, OCLC 1037248759
- An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century Athens : Univ Of Georgia Press, 2011. ISBN 9780820337791, OCLC 696916151
- Race Against Time: Culture and Separation in Natchez since 1930. Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, 2001. ISBN 9780807130278, OCLC 56654733
- The Wide Brim: Early Poems and Ponderings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas (Florida History and Culture) April 15, 2002;
- Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-Century Florida Gainesville : University Press of Forida, 2003. ISBN 9780813027678, OCLC 50348066
- The Civil Rights Movement Malden (Mass.) ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2001. ISBN 9780631220442, OCLC 491974296
Edited
- Raymond Arsenault (eds), Paradise Lost?: The Environmental History of Florida, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. ISBN 9780813028262, OCLC 474889496
References
- 1 2 3 "Jack E. Davis". history.ufl.edu.
- ↑ Pulitzer Prizes. "Jack E. Davis". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
- ↑ http://ugapress.blogspot.com/2010/02/everglades-providence-wins-florida-book.html